WASHINGTON — The race for control of the Senate is already underway — and it is being fueled by outside groups that do not disclose their donors. In nine key Senate races, outside groups have already spent at least $12.5 million on advertising and grassroots communications targeting both already announced and potential candidates. Nonprofit groups…

The New York Times published a fawning front-page profile of the Koch brothers last Friday. The article never mentions their efforts to secure unfettered fossil fuel consumption, which would destroy humanity’s livable climate. It was quickly criticized by leading experts as “poor journalism” and “gullible.” The Times wants you to believe that the Kochs are…

HERE COME the big money boogeymen. Be very afraid. Yesiree, if Charles and David Koch didn’t exist, liberal fund-raisers would have to invent them. What perfect role players! Here they come again, the freespending, deep-pocketed, right-wing bros from Wichita, Kansas (by way of MIT), ready to steal another national election. Just last month, at their…

At their most recent retreat in Southern California two weeks ago, the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and 450 of their donor-allies announced plans to spend $889 million over the next two years to influence state and federal elections and shape the national discourse. The money would go to bankrolling political activity, funding think…

WASHINGTON — Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the central hub of the political empire of the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, reported raising $57.5 million in 2013 and disbursing $41.7 million to organizations in the Koch network. Freedom Partners, founded under the radar in 2011, emerged in 2012 as the main bank for Koch-related…

This year Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell chose to spend Father’s Day with two GOP political sugar daddies, Charles and David Koch, at their annual retreat, this time at the lovely St. Regis Monarch Bay resort in Orange County, California. As befit the day, McConnell brought the love: “I want to start by thanking you,…

Public Citizen and Protect Our Elections are taking aim at the FEC for dropping the ball on Rove’s failure to disclose donors. Earlier this year, FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel was so frustrated by the partisanship within the panel that she took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to shake her fist at the way her Republican…

As the President prepares to introduce new regulations using his executive authority to create a cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants John Boehner got one right when a reporter asked for his thoughts on the expected…

Via Lalo Alcaraz Another snark-filled guest post by the one, the only Will Durst, who’s having a little fun with those pesky, corporate 1%ers. Or as Will calls them, the Kochocracy. Take it away, Will: THE KOCHOCRACY In the bad old days, medieval German…

(DISCLAIMER: This is effectively a hate-driven, 3,000-word screed against the worst group of people in America; so, if that’s not what you’re prepared to read, then I advise you stop here. Obviously, not every single member of this contemptible…